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 Tuesday April 01, 2003 14:43 by David Rynne
 2 Busses attacked as they transported American and European peace activists Warplanes attack human shields says Iraq BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes have attacked two buses bringing American and European peace activists to Baghdad from neighbouring Jordan, Iraq says. Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf told a news conference on Monday the injured were being treated in a hospital near the Jordanian border. He gave no more details of casualties. "Yesterday an American warplane attacked two buses on the highway between Amman and Baghdad with foreign passengers, among them Americans," Sahaf said, adding later that Europeans had also been on board. "The brave Americans start shooting Americans." Hundreds of Western activists poured into Baghdad before the war to show their support for the Iraqi people in the weeks leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of the country. Some of them set up camp in power stations and water plants around the Iraqi capital in a bid to dissuade U.S. military commanders from targeting the facilities. Others have headed out of the country -- taking buses that shuttle between Baghdad and the Jordanian capital Amman. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5... and if you read the article you will see that David's source was Reuters, a somewhat respectable news agency.
if his source was reuters and he copied and pasted it buses surely would have been spelt correctly?
just a thought
Voices in the Wilderness has denied news reports that a bus load of "human shields" was attacked by US missiles.
A statement by Voices in the Wilderness said all the reports were false, and that the entire team is safe and headed for Amman. Richard Scrase of Human Shield Action confirms that there have been no such reports among their teams.